More People Buy Furniture
That They See in the Movies

Stephen Copeland has a bedtime fantasy he can't confess to his wife. It involves Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and a king-sized Italian bed.

It's the bed that's crucial. With a 24-inch thick mattress, padded satin headboard and matching box spring, the bed is just like the one Mr. Nicholson slept in as the obsessive-compulsive hero of "As Good As It Gets." Mr. Copeland knows this because when he bought the bed at a Los Angeles furniture shop, the owner slipped the information into her sales pitch. After hearing the...